Collapse: How society chooses to fail or succeed.

The prologue made from Jared Diamond’s book : Collapse: How Society chooses to fail or succeed brings to perspective several factors that can cause the downfall or the prosperity of a society in an attempt to eliminate the inclined assumption that ecological destruction is caused mainly by human exploitation of natural resources. Thus, in the beginning of the prologue the writer highlights significant historical events that has caused drastic changes in a population, in an attempt to relate factors responsible for the latter and provide a better understanding of its causes. A five-point framework is presented in order to further explains that environmental damage is not the only cause of a society’s collapse. For instance, the author emphasises on the fact that the determination of a population survival is based on its response to a prominent catastrophe either caused naturally or by human intervention. The inclined tendency to judge business people as being non-environmentalist, or environmentalist as being extremist is highlighted in order to rethink  this paradigm. 


Fig 1: Glacier melting faster than first thought: http://www.armageddononline.org/Glaciers-Melting-Faster-Than-First-Thought.html